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Radio Daily Schedule

KQED Public Radio: Thursday, May 23, 2013

88.5 FM San Francisco • 89.3 FM Sacramento

Schedule is subject to change. Please visit kqed.org/tv/schedules/daily for the most up-to-date info.

OVERNIGHT

12:00 am

All Things Considered London Attack A man has been hacked to death in London. British officials are said to be treating it as an Islamist terrorist attack. The government's called an urgent meeting of its crisis response committee. It happened in daylight close to a military barracks in Woolwich, in south London. A local parliamentarian says the dead man was a serving British soldier. This has not been confirmed. Media reports say two young men hit the victim in a car, and then used a machete and butchers' knives to kill him in the street. One witness reportedly said the assailants stood around, waving knives and a gun, and asked people to film them. Officials say two men were shot and injured by police.

2:00 am

Radio Specials The Computer History Museum Presents Chroniclers of Technology: An Evening with David Kirkpatrick, Steven Levy & John Markoff -- David Kirkpatrick, Steven Levy and John Markoff are three of the most prolific tech writers in the country and have been friends for almost 30 years. Levy is a senior writer for Wired Magazine and the author of seven books, many of them bestsellers, on everything from computer hackers and cryptography to the inside stories of the iPod's invention and Google's birth. Kirkpatrick, long-time Fortune Magazine writer and now chairman of the Techonomy conferences, wrote the behind-the-scenes story of Facebook's founding and explosive growth in the bestselling book "The Facebook Effect." Markoff, a senior writer for The New York Times, began writing about technology in 1976 and joined the Times in 1988.

3:00 am

Morning Edition Language and Identity For The Race Card Project, people tell stories about racial or cultural identity in just six words. Elysha O'Brien is Mexican-American. Her six words are: "Mexican white girl doesn't speak Spanish." Her parents never taught their children Spanish because of the prejudice they experienced themselves.

MORNING

9:00 am

Forum Apple Accused of Avoiding More Taxes than It Pays A U.S. Senate subcommittee this week accused Apple of exploiting loopholes and creating stateless foreign subsidiaries to avoid paying $9 billion in U.S. taxes last year. Yet the panel stopped short of alleging the company did anything illegal. We examine Apple's actions, the ethics of corporate tax dodging and whether the system should be reformed.

9:30 am

Forum Airbnb Faces Uncertain Legal Future A New York judge fined an Airbnb user $2,400 this week for renting out a room in his apartment, arguing the three-night rental violated the city's "illegal hotel" laws. The popular San Francisco-based online site that allows users to offer their homes as temporary rentals has also been accused of disrupting local housing markets and failing to charge city taxes. Forum discusses what the ruling may mean for Airbnb and its users locally, and for other participants in the so-called share economy.

10:00 am

Forum Doctor Paul Farmer on the Call 'To Repair the World' In his 2001 graduation speech to medical students at Brown University, doctor and activist Paul Farmer said while science and technology are the heart of modern medicine, "you must add the soul." Farmer, the co-founder of Partners in Health, which brings modern health care to the poor, has focused much of his career on that hands-on approach to medicine, living among and treating locals in Haiti, Peru, Russia and other countries. Farmer joins us to talk about his advice to future doctors and his new book, "To Repair the World," a collection of his speeches on global health and social justice.

AFTERNOON

1:00 pm

Fresh Air Actress Julianne Moore Actress Julianne Moore joins the program. She's currently starring in the new film "What Maisie Knew" as an out-of-control rock star and mother in the midst of a nasty custody battle. It's based on a novel by Henry James. Moore recently played Sarah Palin in the TV movie "Game Change." Her other films include "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia," "Far From Heaven," "The Big Lebowski," "Short Cuts" and "The Hours." She's been nominated for an Oscar four times.

2:00 pm

World Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A Nigerian writer sets her new novel in the U.S. It features a Nigerian-born heroine who, much like herself, is a keen observer of America's racial divide. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her new book "'Amerikanah."

4:00 pm

Marketplace Freezing Human Eggs Human egg freezing has gone from being a rare and widely unaffordable procedure to a commonplace practice. The show takes a look at the growing business of egg freezing.

4:30 pm

All Things Considered
KQED News 4:30pm, 5:04pm, 5:30pm, 6:04pm & 7:04pm

EVENING

6:30 pm

Marketplace Freezing Human Eggs Human egg freezing has gone from being a rare and widely unaffordable procedure to a commonplace practice. The show takes a look at the growing business of egg freezing.

7:00 pm

Fresh Air Actress Julianne Moore Actress Julianne Moore joins the program. She's currently starring in the new film "What Maisie Knew" as an out-of-control rock star and mother in the midst of a nasty custody battle. It's based on a novel by Henry James. Moore recently played Sarah Palin in the TV movie "Game Change." Her other films include "Boogie Nights," "Magnolia," "Far From Heaven," "The Big Lebowski," "Short Cuts" and "The Hours." She's been nominated for an Oscar four times.

8:00 pm

Radio Specials Hearing Voices from NPR For the Fallen -- Green Beret and poet, Colonel Robert Schaefer of the U.S. Army, hosts the voices of veterans remembering their comrades.

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